How is Obama Holding up?

Fred Barnes from the Wall Street Journal wrote an article about how, "The Obama Agenda Bogs Down". Barnes intended audience is for everyone in the United States. Barnes obviously has a conservative stand point in politics, as his opinion on the Democrats is very clear. Barnes claims that Obama is just passing bills from the Democrats left and right, comparing him to President Franklin Roosevelt, and none of the bills have really made a change. Barnes states that President Obama made a "rookie mistake" and for the most part says that he passes anything that the Democrats draft and just over looks at what the Republicans bring to the table. Barnes brings up a good point when he brings up the $787 billion stimulus plan that the Democrats came up with themselves. The stimulus plan was supposed to help our economy out, stopping all the job losses and our economy going into the pit, jobs are still being lost and our economy does not look much better. Barnes also mention how Democrats have the majority in Congress which leaves a disadvantage to the Republicans. He states that Democrats should have given some of the stimulus funds to the Republicans that way they could have put it towards a tax reform that would encourage economic growth. Barnes is the executive producer of The Weekly Standard and has plenty of experience in the politic and journalism field, and also served in the U.S. army for 2 years. I agree with Barnes about some things but not everything, such as the stimulus plan, I never thought it was a good idea, and since then I have not seen any changes. I thought my job was pretty secure, but just a week or 2 ago they laid off about 300 people in our corporate head quarters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Barnes_(journalist)